Károly Doncsecz

Who was Károly Doncsecz?

Károly Doncsecz was a Slovene potter in Hungary and in 1984 he received the award Master of folk art for his work. Doncsecz was born in Orfalu,.

He graduated from the apprenticeship in Magyarszombatfa and Zalaegerszeg, Sümeg, after Szentgotthárd.

From 1940 on Doncsecz lived and worked in Kétvölgy,. Since the 1970s, he was the only Slovene potter in Hungary. His potter works were presented in numerous exhibits all over Hungary and Slovenia. When he was still alive, travel groups from the motherland Slovenia often visited him in his kétvölgyian workshop, and Doncsecz did not only tell about his craft, but also about biographies of man Slovenes from the Raba region in his mother tongue.